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On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Edward M. Corrado <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > I could have done what > others did and purposely avoided scheduling meetings around that time > and rescheduled the one that was but I didn't. Yes, I have bazillions > of other things to do and the registration time wasn't convenient for > me, but everyone else has bazillions of things to do as well. It would > not have been luck that got the people in who registered before me a > slot - it would have been a combination of their good planning and my > poor planning. > Honestly... I just laughed at this scoldy Malthusian post. This is Code4Lib Insider Baseball. I wonder if anyone would have said this when C4L was founded. It presupposes so much. Among other things, that a person who would be a good fit for this conference would avidly hang on C4L's every word or movement well in advance, and understand all of the games. Then we wonder why there are so few women working in library IT, available for speaker panels, featured on important panels, blah blah blah. I feel I've been hearing what Edward said my entire working life, first in aircraft maintenance and then in libraries. The responses to my off-the-cuff suggestion on randomization are insightful. I like the new ideas flowing. But at least I have said my piece. I do like the suggestion about capping institutional attendance. It is amusing to see that institutions sending more people than work at our library. Institutional diversity would seem to be a C4L value. Speaking of C4L insider baseball, hmmm! Beat you at your own game? We just sold off a pile of card catalogs (we had to keep the shelflist, since half of our collection hasn't been converted, and it will be a while--your library's end-of-year chowder for purchasing misc stuff is my library's entire operational and personnel budget--and I speak from experience in both institutions). Perhaps we should use the proceeds to fund next year's Karen G. Schneider Scholarship (make that, The Illustrious Karen G. Schneider Scholarship for Excellence in Librarianship), for women from Newfoundland working in academic library technology in California's Bay Area, preferably those with extensive experience in LMS migrations, EZProxy, LDAP, and NCIP. I haven't had time to follow C4L very closely (q.v., "Running 5-Person Library"), but I did notice a thread about a specialized scholarship that would suggest this might be acceptable. Although, of course, there will be a reason that I should have understood that it really isn't acceptable. As noted before, our AD for Lib Tech would love a good tech conference in the next six months. She has ER&L (her first), but would like something geekier. We appreciate the spirit of the "start your own C4L," and you do have to ask, why doesn't the Bay Area have one? But--and I've worked in the big places with the cushy padding, so I am aware that when you work in aforesaid places, you really don't understand where we are--that's not feasible at present; she's taken on something else important and "external" and that's about it for the next 18 mo, given an overflowing plate. Recommendations welcome. Enjoy C4L. Thank you for a "community" [followed by a qualified 'sic'] where one can speak one's mind. That is all. Karen G. Schneider [log in to unmask] Former C4L Attendee Former C4L Keynoter Former C4L Keynoter Who Survived Socially-Awkward Hecklers Inspiration for C4L "Sarge"